4 sentences with “worthless”

The famous American circus impresario, Phineas Barnum, left a fortune of $4 million to be divided among several heirs except for his daughter Helen, to whom he left only a property in Denver, which he believed to be worthless.

Within a year, Germans who had spent their lives carefully accumulating savings found that those savings were worthless. This inspired anger and resentment among ordinary people who might not otherwise be attracted to extremist solutions.

The economic crisis came to a head in 1786 and 1787 in western Massachusetts, where farmers found themselves in a difficult situation: they faced high taxes and debts, which they found almost impossible to pay with worthless state and continental paper money.

While the British could pay with gold and silver, the American forces relied on paper money, backed by loans obtained in Europe. This early American money was called continental currency; unfortunately, its value quickly fell. "Not worth a Continental" soon became a shorthand term for something worthless.